Sasi wrote:There are many people who only read these forums without being registered, too. Perhaps our posts do have some influence upon their own ideas, perharps do they evolve themselves and question their own beliefs, who knows...?

Yep I lurked before I tried Gor rp. Y'all shaped my mind.

(The host called you Honeybuns? Mistress Honeybuns has a nice ring to it)

I don't think the host's examples were great, but... I see what he was trying to do. Not sure you are on the same level, but he was trying to explain that people can take the initiative, don't always have to wait for someone else to engage them by sticking to doing the usual thing. Which is not a bad thing, in general.

Throwing out a descriptive 'what am I doing' post is fine. Won't always get RP started. Still leaves it to the other to actually engage your character. It is a polite and careful way. Nothing wrong with it. But nothing wrong with sometimes being the first person to talk to another, even if it might be seen as pushing your RP on them. Might be a tad more difficult playing a slave in Gor, but even so.

Tamar Luminos wrote:Well...my big problem with that is slaves are universally supposed to be terrified of FW. It's like, a main, integral part of the societal norms in the genre. Walking up and offering a FW a flower would be the act of a foolish, deranged, or terminally naive slave girl. So, you know- if that's what you're meaning to play, guess it'd work but otherwise, seems counter to the role and totally disregards the fact that FW in general hated and were ferociously jealous of slave girls and slave girls lived in terror of invoking a FW's wrath.

Yes, it puzzles me when FW players are kind to slaves, never jealous, never secretly envious, never cruel... I remember a sim where I was, there was a blood option and the OOC admins, in their notices, encouraged the FW to bid at the blood option to offer the girl to their FC... I really wondered what books these people had read... Because they always claim they read the books, of course.

I tend to think that it has more to do with the fact that most people don't distance themselves from their character. Their character is a part of themselves and they don't want to make it look bad, petty, jealous, cruel... Especially women... There again, the Earth morals take over....